'Dover - Colombo' intercity bus service
42 days - 20,000 km ........🌏🇱🇰🇬🇧
The second longest bus route in the world...
🔃 Itinerary:
Colombo via Dover - Dunkirk - Paris - Venice - Istanbul - Tehran - Kabul - Lahore - Delhi - Rameswaram
England's Penn Overland Tours Company has started this Dover - Colombo bus service on 17-08-1959.
4 crew members and 10 passengers were included in one journey.
A person was charged £78 (Rs. 32,930) for the journey.
That's around £2300 (Rs. 970,000) in today's terms.
Throughout the journey, food and drinks were prepared inside the bus, and there were small beds, electric fans and heaters for the passengers.
The bus reached Dunkirk in France through Night Ferry service from Dover port in England, and from there to Paris, Italy, Turkey, Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India-Rameswaram port via land routes and then loaded on a ship and brought to Colombo.
At that time, the London-Kolkata bus service, which was already the longest bus service in the world, had been started by Albert Tours, which took 50 days and the price of a ticket was £85. They stopped at popular tourist destinations en route to Kolkata to give passengers a chance to see them, which took longer and increased fares.
Penn Overland Tours has started this Dover-Colombo bus service with the aim of providing service to passengers at a low cost and with a short travel time.
However, although the London-Calcutta bus service operated till 1976, it is not clear how long the Dover-Colombo bus service operated.
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London-Kolkata is said to be the longest bus route in the world.
But that is not true.
The London-Sydney bus service started by Albert Tours in 1968 has the honor of being the longest bus service in the world.
It will reach Kolkata via London - Dover - Dunkirk - Paris - Venice - Istanbul - Tehran - Kabul - Peshawar - Lahore - New Delhi - Agra - Banaras and then via Myanmar - Thailand to Singapore.
From Singapore, the bus was loaded onto a ship and taken to Perth, Australia, and from there it traveled 4000 km to Sydney. 132 days have passed for travel.
Until the bus service was stopped in 1976, about 15 journeys from London to Sydney were successfully completed.
Second, Dover - Colombo can be called the world's longest bus service.
AEC, BMC, British Leyland buses are used for bus services from England to Sydney/Kolkata/Colombo.
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It has been seen on the internet and in many articles that the bus service running from Lima, Peru to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is currently the world's longest bus route.
Its total distance was 6200 km, and the travel time was 102 hours.
Ormeño S.A bus company used Scania and Volvo buses with Marcopolo license for this, and a bus ran every Wednesday and Sunday of the week.
However, they have stopped this service in 2018. 😅
Even though it has been 5 years, the longest bus service in the world, which is still running today, has not been identified yet.
Accordingly, there is no definite indication of what is the longest bus service in the world currently running.
